Posts Tagged ‘Mint Records’

* Featuring artists who are playing the 2013 Victory Square Block Party in Vancouver this weekend *

Congrats to the winners of the Gold Fields tickets! This emerging Aussie synth-pop band is playing in Vancouver on Saturday night. Also passing through town shortly is Melbourne-based singer-songwriter Vance Joy. You can win tix to his 13 Sept show at the Media Club by being one of the first people to tweet to ozstranded or to email us at ozstranded@fastmail.fm

CJ of Discorder Radio took the time this week to interview members of Tinpan Orange, from Melbourne, Victoria, who are playing the Vancouver Folk Music Festival this weekend. You can hear his spirited and finely-edited piece at the top of the show. Thanks CJ for your wonderful contribution!

Legendary blues singer, Dalannah Gail Bowen is a also performing at this weekend’s festival. Today she phones through to re-visit some of the moments of her extraordinary life story, including her days in the mid-60s Winnipeg scene that included the youthful Neil Young and Randy Bachman. Dalannah’s commitment to social justice activism is also well documented and today she speaks specifically about her involvement in the recent fight to keep the Rainer Hotel open.

And we welcome CiTR Radio Board Chairperson Janis McKenzie into the studio to help wrap up the show. Janis has lots to say about her decades-long commitment to this amazing radio station and she shares some fabulous local Vancouver music from past and present. Come back soon Janis!

* Featuring special guest singer-songwriter Jamison Troy LIVE in the CiTR studio *

Nardwuar the Human Serviette recently gifted me with a copy of the debut 7″ of Vancouver garage rock legends The Smugglers, straight from his personal archive! You can hear both sides of the record at the start of today’s show. Next up are tracks from the three artists who are playing the Mint Records showcase at this weekend’s Sled Island Festival in Calgary (which by now unfortunately is washed out due to the epic floods…)

The remainder of the show is devoted to bands from the province of Saskatchewan. Rah Rah and Library Voices are two of Regina’s finest bands. And Regina native Jamison Troy joins us live in the CiTR studio! Jamison has three recordings to his name, is very active in in the local Vancouver scene where he is presently based. Jamison shares two brand new tracks today, as well as his single ‘I’ve Hurt People’, and speaks of his recent cross-Canada jaunt. We finish up the show with two of Jamison Troy’s recommended artists, and the cover of ‘Cortez the Killer’ by The Church, from their Box of Birds album.

Christina Amphlett, the vivacious and soulful lead singer of the Divynals, sadly passed away this week in New York city where she had been bravely battling both breast cancer and MS. Christina will be forever immortalized as a true role model for female performers who fearlessly bare their sexuality and vulnerability, while taking a no-holds-bar approach to performance in an industry dominated by the masculine. RIP Chrissie.

Another legendary Australian musical icon is featured today – the prolific singer-songwriter Paul Kelly. Paul is currently touring his most recent LP ‘Spring and Fall’, which is a thoughtful acoustic song-cycle that tells the story of a love relationship as it ebbs and flows with the seasons. I had the remarkable fortune to interview Paul in Seattle earlier this year. Today you can hear that interview in full, in anticipation of Paul’s upcoming Wednesday night show in Vancouver at the Rio on Broadway.

* Featuring a tribute to the late Stompin’ Tom Conners and tracks from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds in anticipation of the North American tour for the ‘Push The Sky Away’ LP *

Legendary country and western musician and Maritimer, Stompin’ Tom Conners , passed away in March of this year, leaving a legacy of over 300 songs, many of which chronicle his extensive travels throughout Canada. He became a musical icon through the strength of his story telling and tunes referencing Canadian historical events. For instance ‘The Martin Hartwell Story’ – which we play on the show today – is about a pilot who survived 31 days in the Northwest Territories, after resorting to cannibalism.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds return to North America this week in support of ‘Push the Sky Away’, the band’s 15th official full-length. Today we play ‘Jubilee Street’, the latest single from the album, after visiting the anarchic days of the Birthday Party, and small selection of earlier Bad Seeds tunes, including a haunting cover of ‘Hey Joe’.

Rounding out the show are brand new tracks from Melbourne’s Henry Wagons, featuring Robert Forster of the Go-Betweens on the track ‘I Still Can’t Find Her’, and the first single from Renny Wilson’s album ‘The Sugerglider’, out now on Mint Records.